Characteristics of Living Things
The molecule that allows living things to reproduce.
What is DNA?
The average number of cells in a human body.
What is 3 trillion?
The three parts of an atom.
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons.
A living thing.
What is an organism?
To keep a balanced diet, you must eat the right mix of these three types of biological molecules.
What are carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins?
What is respond to stimuli?
The little dot you see in the middle of a cell when looking at it under a microscope.
What is the nucleus?
What is an acid?
The smallest level of organization in biology.
What is an atom?
What is Carbon?
The process which enables living organisms to adjust to their environment in order to ensure survival.
What is adapt?
The word for an organism that is only one cell large.
What is unicellular?
A charged atom.
What is an ion?
The largest level of organization in biology.
What is a population?
The chemical name for sugar, produced through the process of photosynthesis.
A lizard basks in sunlight because of this characteristic of living things.
What is maintain homeostasis?
The original name for cells, before the word cell came about.
What is animacules?
A molecule with one positive side and one negative side.
What is a polar molecule?
The largest organ in the human body.
What is the skin?
This type of cell is produced by most animals, and is the largest type of cell. So large, it can not only be seen without a microscope, but sometimes from a distance.
What is an egg?
These five elements are needed to build all living things.
What are Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, and Phosphorous.
The founders of cell theory.
Who are Schleiden and Schwann?
A unit of energy: the amount of energy used to raise the temperature of water by 1 degree celsius.
What is a calorie?
The name for the organ system containing hair, skin, and nails.
What is the integumentary system?
The four kingdoms of life.
What are plants, animals, protists, and fungi?